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Politics of Nostalgia in the Arabic Novel: Nation-State, Modernity and Tradition

Politics of Nostalgia in the Arabic Novel: Nation-State, Modernity and Tradition

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Literary CriticismIslamFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 1399564889
ISBN13: 9781399564885
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: May 31 2026
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
The Arabic novel has taken shape in the intercultural networks of exchange between East and West, past and present. Wen-chin Ouyang shows how this has created a politics of nostalgia which can be traced to discourses on aesthetics, ethics and politics relevant to cultural and literary transformations of the Arabic speaking world in the 19th and 20th centuries. She reveals nostalgia and madness as the tropes through which the Arabic novel writes its own story of grappling with and resisting the hegemony of both the state and cultural heritage.

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